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young student and was not satisfied to accept the authority of 

 Galen's textbook. Therefore, after beginning his medical education 

 at Brussels, he transferred to Padua where human dissection was 



Fig. 9. — Vesahus (1514-1564), anatomist. Frontispiere. facsimile edition of 

 1728. Nortliwestern University Library. (From Locy, Grotvth of Biology, pub- 

 Iislied by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.) 



then allowed. He later became professor of surgery there. He was 

 the first, since the time of Aristotle and Galen, to prove that direct 



